Timed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City, “Queering Public History,” a special issue of The Public Historian, guest-edited by Melinda Marie Jetté, assesses the state …
Read More >As transgender people continue to experience discrimination and possible further loss of civil rights, we are reminded to find hope for societies that are struggling to learn how to address gender beyond …
Read More >As we celebrate Pride, we recognize the many young people—as well as their families, friends, and medical professionals that support them—who make room for themselves in a world that is beginning to …
Read More >After the raid of the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, and the six days of protests that followed, the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) formed, calling for a “fierce, full-scale assault on …
Read More >Excerpt from Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman Edited and abridged from the chapter “Equality or Liberation?” The difficulties of a gay lifestyle have generally been glossed over as inconvenient when …
Read More >Excerpt from the prologue to Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman It is not wrong to claim that the past 50 years have marked a notable change in attitude towards sexual minorities …
Read More >adapted from Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 by Nan Alamilla Boyd Each year at the end of June, San Francisco fills with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and …
Read More >In celebration of LGBTQ History Month this October, enjoy free access to articles from Feminist Media Histories, a journal that examines the role gender has played in media technologies across a range of historical …
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